2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2025 Goals

1. 85+ books
2. 20% non-fiction (17+)
3. Review every book read
4. Read 30+ from TBR
5. To prioritize reading actual paper books
6. Read 8 500+ page books

Personal Challenges
✍️Find my reviews here...
📚January Bookshelf
📚February Bookshelf
📚March Bookshelf
📚April Bookshelf
📚May Bookshelf
📚June Bookshelf
📚August Bookshelf
📚September Bookshelf
🐘Year of the Tome Challenge🐘

Reading Challenges Group
⏰TBR 2025
👯Order of TBR for Challenges 2025

ATY Challenges
⛄Around The Year - Winter
🗓️52 Books of ATY 2025

BT Challenges
📊Publication Bingo
🏆Best Book of 2025
🧹Dusty Books Challenge
✍️Unfinished Sentences
👯‍♀️Gimme A Pair
🤥Moment of Truth
📚 ⏰️ ✅️ ❌️ ⭐️ 🔲 ◻

2025 Bookshelf
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JANUARY [11]

⏰️ Titles committed for 2025 TBR ⏰
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message #32
A=audiobook B=book K=kindle
L=library N=need O=own
⛄=ATY Winter 📊=Bingo 🐘=Tome 🗓️=ATY52

BO🗓️ Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
✅️AO🗓️ Big Little Lies
✅️ AO📊🗓️ The Borrower
AL🐘🗓️ The Bone Clocks
✅️AL🗓️ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
BO📊 The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
✅️KO📊 City of Thieves
✅️KO⛄🗓️ Crying in H Mart
✅️ BL⛄🗓️ Danny the Champion of the World
BL📊 Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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✅️KO🗓️The Enchanted
✅️BO📊🗓️February
✅️KO⛄🗓️Fight Night
✅️ BO📊🗓️The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✅️AO🗓️Harlem Shuffle
✅️AL🗓️Horse
✅️AO🗓️The Housekeeper and the Professor
✅️KO🐘🗓️I Know This Much Is True
✅️BL📊🐘The Invention of Hugo Cabret
✅️AL🗓️Killing Floor
✅️AL🐘🗓️The Lincoln Highway
✅️BO📊🗓️Magpie Murders
✅AL🗓️Normal People
✅️BO⛄📊🐘🗓️The Orenda
✅️KO📊A Parchment of Leaves
AO🐘🗓️The Prince of Tides
✅️BL📊🗓️The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
BO🐘The Rose Code
BL🐘🗓️S.
✅️AL🗓️The Searcher
✅️KO📊🐘🗓️Skippy Dies
✅️KO🐘🗓️So Much for That
BL🗓️Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✅️AO🗓️The Testaments
✅️AO🗓️Through Black Spruce
✅️AL🗓️Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅️ AL🗓️Trust
✅️ALTwenty-Seven Minutes
✅️AO🗓️The Unseen World
BO📊🐘🗓️The Way the Crow Flies
AL🗓️ We All Want Impossible Things
✅️AL📊🗓️We Begin at the End
✅️AL⛄The Wedding People
BL🗓️Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
✅️BO🗓️Women Talking
✅️BL⛄🗓️Wordhunter
✅️BO🗓️The Yellow House
✅️AL⛄You Are Here
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Around the Year in 52
Winter Challenge
01Dec24 through 28Feb25
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Find a book that...
✔️ Fits one of the last 4 prompts on the 2024 list [pub in 2024] Wordhunter
✔️ Fits one of the first 4 prompts on the 2025 list [What a Wonderful World] Danny the Champion of the World
✔️ Has a mostly white cover Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
✔️ Is on a Best of 2024 list The Wedding People
✔️ Is set in the snow [bookr:The Christmas Guest|83814905]
✔️ Is by an author you've read before Joseph Boyden The Orenda
✔️ Features a winter holiday The Songbook of Benny Lament
✔️ Is nonfiction The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
✔️ Is written by an author whose first or last initial can be found in WINTER The Lost Girls of Penzance by Sally Rigby
✔️ Has a mostly blue cover The Island of Missing Trees
✔️ Is a speculative fiction novel The Testaments
✔️ Features family drama Fayne
✔️ Has fire on the cover Fight Night
✔️ Is written by a BIPOC author Crying in H Mart
✔️ Is a love story You Are Here
Read:

Wahoo! Sounds like fun!!

BT Bingo Challenge
What's In a Year?
02Dec24 until 30Sep25
message #10


..2019..
..2015.. ..2012..

..2004..

Year ~ Title ~ Author ~ Read date
✅2025 The Heart of Winter ~ Jonathan Evison
✅2024 You Are Here ~ David Nicholls
✅2023 The Christmas Guest ~ Peter Swanson
✅2022 Fayne ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
✅2021 The Songbook of Benny Lament ~ Amy Harmon
✅2020 The Searcher~ Tana French
2019 You Have Arrived at Your Destination ~ Amor Towles
✅2018 Normal People ~ Sally Rooney
✅2017 After ~ Nikki Gemmell
✅️2016 The Unseen World ~ Liz Moore
2015 Maybe in Another Life ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
✅2014 Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories ~ Ron Rash
✅birth Papillon ~ Henri Charrière
✅️2013 The Orenda ~ Joseph Boyden
2012 Carbon Cycle ~ Kate Rawles
✅2011 The Borrower ~ Rebecca Makkai
✅️2010 So Much for That ~ Lionel Shriver
✅2009 February ~ Lisa Moore
✅2008 City of Thieves ~ David Benioff
✅2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret ~ Brian Selznick
✅️2006 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox ~ Maggie O'Farrell
✅2005 The Golden Spruce ~ John Vaillant
2004 Tree: A Life Story ~ David Suzuki
✅2003 Fresh Eggs ~ Rob Levandoski
✅2002 A Parchment of Leaves ~ Silas House

2025 ~ 🐘 The Year of the Tome 🐘

It's time to clear my shelves of all those 500+ page books. I hope to read a biggie each month.

469 pg ~ S.
✅️490 pg ~ The Orenda
✅534 pg ~ The Invention of Hugo Cabret
✅️576 pg ~ The Lincoln Highway
624 pg ~ The Bone Clocks
624 pg ~ The Rose Code
✅️661 pg ~ Skippy Dies
679 pg ~ The Prince of Tides
✅️744 pg ~ So Much for That
848 pg ~ The Way the Crow Flies
✅️897 pg ~ I Know This Much Is True

🧹BT Dusty Books Challenge🧹
Each month a number will be pulled from the hat and the corresponding book by that number will be the book you will read.
For this challenge, I have picked the 12 books that I have right here, sitting on my physical shelf, staring at me. This will mean no excuses in trying to find the book or waiting for a hold to come my way.
message #12

2-8-9-3-5-7-1-6-4

1. ☑️Magpie Murders
2. ☑️The Orenda
3.☑️The Yellow House
4. Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
5. ☑️Women Talking
6. The Rose Code
7. ☑️The Lincoln Highway
8. ☑️The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
9. ☑️February
10. The Way the Crow Flies
11. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
12. The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide

Extra: When God Was a Rabbit


. Jan . . . Feb . . . Mar. . . Apr . . . May . . . Jun . . . Jul . . .

🏆Best Books of 2025🏆
message #5

Monthly Fiction Favourites
1. Jan. 5⭐️ Fight Night
2. Feb. 5⭐️ Horse
3. Mar. 5⭐️ The Heart of Winter
4. Apr. 4⭐️ Skippy Dies
5. May 5⭐️ City of Thieves
6. June 5⭐️The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox & 5⭐️Writers & Lovers
7. July
8. Aug. 5⭐️Magpie Murders
9. Sept.
10. Oct.
11. Nov.
12. Dec.

My favourite fiction book of 2025 ....

Monthly Non-Fiction Favourites
1. Jan. 3.5⭐️ Crying in H Mart
2. Feb. 4⭐️ The Pursuit of Endurance
3. Mar. 4⭐️ Papillon
4. Apr. 4⭐️ Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
5. May 3⭐️ The Boys in the Boat
6. June
7. July
8. Aug. 4⭐️ Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
9. Sept.
10. Oct.
11. Nov.
12. Dec.

My favourite non-fiction book of 2025 ....

✍️BT Unfinished Sentence Challenge
Jan01 to Feb15
message #8

✅1. Mama always told me... we are Normal People
✅2. I wake up in the morning... Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅3. If it weren't for sex, I would... be Crying in H Mart
✅4. When I am lost I cry for... The Orenda
✅5. The last thing I do at night is.. say So Much for That

2025 Bookshelf
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FEBRUARY [7]

2025 Bookshelf
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MARCH [10]

In A Word monthly challenge
Read a book with this word in its title:

March
✅️girl ~ Brown Girl Dreaming

April
✅️and ~ Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
✅️and ~ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
✅️and ~ The Housekeeper and the Professor

May
✅️all ~ Small Boat
✅️all ~ Mrs. Dalloway
✅️all ~ All the Colors of the Dark

June
never

July
little ~ All the Little Bird-Hearts

August
book

September
✅️an animal ~ Dogtripping
an animal ~ The Soul of an Octopus

BT 'Gimme a Pair' challenge
Create pairs of books in whatever manner you see
From 20 Feb to 01 May

🍐1. Titles in a foreign language:
✔Papillon
✔Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World


🍐2. Tree on cover:
✔The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
✔The Housekeeper and the Professor


🍐3. Published in 2025:
✔The Heart of Winter
✔Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism


4. Author named Moore:
✔The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
✔February by Lisa Moore


🍐5. Irish author & setting:
✔Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
✔Earth by John Boyne


🍐6. Australian author & setting
✔Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
✔After by Nikki Gemmell


🍐7. Words only on cover
✔The Book of George
✔Women Talking

2025 Bookshelf
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APRIL [8]

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MAY [8]

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JUNE [6]

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JULY [0]
(bikepacking holiday)

AUGUST [9]

Moment of Truth

Read 8 autobiographies, biographies or memoires over the next 8 months

✅️EK Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
BO Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
BO The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide
BL Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
EK South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
AL The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage
ET Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
EK The Sharp End of Life: A Mother's Story
ET The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
BL Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
?? I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
EL Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir
EK The Salt Path

Prioritizing Challenge Reads


🧹=dusty book challenge #️⃣=number in title 🔡=word of the month
🎰=publication bingo 🤥=non-fiction challenge 🐘=tome

Books I Own
✅️ ~🧹🎰(2009) February
✅️ ~🧹The Yellow House
🧹🐘The Way the Crow Flies
🎰(2004) Tree: A Life Story
🧹 Amazon Extreme: Three Ordinary Guys, One Rubber Raft and the Most Dangerous River on Earth
🧹🎰(2012) 🤥Carbon Cycle
🧹🐘The Rose Code


Library Books
🎰(2019) Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
🐘S.
🤥Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

E-reader
✅️ ~ 🐘I Know This Much Is True
✅️ ~#️⃣100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
✅️ ~🎰(2003) Fresh Eggs
🎰(2019)You Have Arrived at Your Destination
🐘The Bone Clocks
🤥South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
🔡All the Little Bird-Hearts
🤥The Sharp End of Life: A Mother's Story

Audiobook
✅️ ~🧹Magpie Murders
✅️ ~ 🔡Mrs. Dalloway
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
🎰Maybe in Another Life
🐘The Prince of Tides
🤥The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage

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SEPTEMBER [2]

TBR 2026
Books that are getting pushed off for another year 😅

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
S.